3. An alleged secessionist is brought before the mayor during the Civil War on August 27, 1861.

I wish reporters still said things like “he was an honest looking man” or “he looked like complete trash” or “I don’t know what she was thinking when she walked out of the house wearing that periwinkle velour track suit!”

4. Back in November of 1919, Pitt was prepping for a Penn State game and two of their players were suspended for not keeping up with their studies. Also:

Hey, was Joe Pa coaching Penn State in 1919?

And a “smoker and jollification” sounds like a rocking good time.

5. I originally checked out this article from February 1914 because it involved snow in Pittsburgh, but it was this little side article about an incident in Times Square that really caught my eye:

First of all, this chick had to be hot as hell for such a kerfuffle to occur over her hat to the point that the Times devoted space to it.

That was not just an honest looking man, PittGirl, it was an honest-looking GERMAN. Also, Carnegie sounds like he may have invented the Ronald Regan / Kenneth Lay “Duh, Me No Know Nothing” defense (but had the swagger to pull it off).
Kudos.